Compiz Fusion on Oldies

This is a test on my OLD PC:
- AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+ @ 1.800 Mhz
- GeForce FX 5200 (OLD!)
- 256 RAM (!!)

I started from a standard Kubuntu Feisty and tried to optimize speed, boot, various tricks and.. here we come:

The video shows a quite busy desktop, Konqueror, Kcalc, standard panels & applets, other windows and - most important - VBox RUNNING a Virtual Machine with Windows98.

Compiz Fusion is running and rendering all the windows quite well, as you can see with amazing speed (it's a 5200 fx card!).

I think more can be fine-tuned, maybe at deep kernel level, let me know

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Questo e' un mio test su un vecchio PC:
- AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+ @ 1.800 Mhz
- GeForce FX 5200 (!)
- 256 RAM (!!)

Sono partito da una Kubuntu Feisty e ho provato ad ottimizzarne la velocita', tempo di avvio, utilizzo memoria e altro ed ecco quello che ho ottenuto.

Nel video mostro un desktop con alcune applicazioni come Konqueror, Kcalc, vari pannelli e applets, varie finestre e - soprattutto - VirtualBox IN ESECUZIONE con una macchina virtuale con Win98.

Compiz Fusion in esecuzione renderizza tutto cio' abbastanza bene, come si vede con un'ottima fluidita' (si tratta anche di una 5200 fx!).

Credo si possa fare anche meglio, magari altri parametri del kernel... fatemi sapere!
:-)

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• compiz
• fusion
• feisty
• old
• oldies
• nvidia
• optimize
• kde
• virtual
• box
• virtualbox
• win98
• windows
• 98
• linux
• ubuntu
• kubuntu
• low
• end

[nikojnemavakvo]

wow i have 2.6 celeron with 512ram and ati 9200se 128 and its fucking slower that this! but on 8.04! how can you optimize the linux!! i really wanna know :)

cheers and beers

[phoenixbf]

I worked out a little bit Compiz settings (no auto-FPS, no v-sync, and other), various optimizations, then removed lots of running services to keep memory footprint as lite as possible.

ATI drivers arent so good on linux actually.

PS: thanks for the beers! cheers :)

[Pentium3ddem]

that's not an old pc.

pentium 133 with 16mb of ram is an old pc

[phoenixbf]

"old" is relative to the fact of running a 3D composite system, applications and a virtual machine.

[asphixmx]

Thanks for showing people how good Linux works even on older machines! Great vid.

[phoenixbf]

Thanks :)

[Luiselloman]

perfect! I miss my old pc.

[HoodSta93]

nothing is compatible!!

[delboy83uk]

I have xubuntu 7.1 and compiz running on my athlon 1900xp 1gig ram and ati 9800pro, runs like a charm, makes my mate with his beastly pc and £400 vista sick every time he see's it muahah

[cannotfindaspare]

Heck! If that was an XP install, you'd think the computer was of high-end hardware or something. The 2500+ ran it without a breaking a sweat.

[spyker32]

Sweet! I'm buying an old 5200 for my old machine (with Ubuntu 7.10) and it would be sweet if compiz-fusion works this well!